Gerard Brophy
Gerard Brophy is a contemporary Australian composer whose colourful, rhythmically alert scores range from solo miniatures to orchestral works and have been heard widely at home and abroad.
Gerard Brophy began his music studies in classical guitar. He studied composition with Don Banks, Anthony Gilbert and Richard Toop at the NSW Conservatorium of Music, graduating as Student of the Year in 1982. He has won numerous composition prizes in Australia and overseas, and his works were selected for the 1981, 1984, 1986 and 1991 ISCM World Music Days.
He has held an Australia Council Composer Fellowship, an Italian government scholarship, and scholarships from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana di Siena and the Paris Conservatoire. Leading ensembles have commissioned and performed his music, among them the St Louis, Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Nash Ensemble, Het Nieuw Ensemble, Gruppo Musica d’Oggi, Het Trio, Chicago Pro Musica, Ensemble Octandre and Ensemble l’Itinéraire. His work is regularly broadcast in Europe, Japan, the United States and Australia.
In late 1983 he became the inaugural Composer-in-Residence at Musica Viva Australia. Further residencies followed with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Queensland Conservatorium and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
Compositions by Gerard Brophy appear on
Passing
Recorded at the 2007 Asian Composers League Festival in Wellington, this album presents nine orchestral works by Australian and New Zealand composers, performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Young.
in depth
Emerging Brisbane-based ensemble Collusion has produced a disc of inspiration, imagery and energy in their first release for Move Records, In Depth. An enticing melting pot of influences, In Depth is comprised entirely of music written in the last twenty years.
Dreamtracks
Music for clarinet by Australian composers. Celebrating Australia’s landscape, spirit and composers, Dreamtracks gathers some of the finest contemporary Australian writing for solo clarinet, clarinet and piano, and unusual chamber combinations.
A Sympathetic Resonance
Peter Constant presents classical guitar works by Australian composers, joined by Marion Schaap on guitar, Mardi McSullea on flute and Helen Noonan, soprano.